A run-of-the-mill detective film which manages to complicate things about twenty minutes in by introducing several dozen characters while maintaining very little driving force to the plot itself. Soon after, the film pares back to basics with the reluctant detective focusing solely on the case at hand, up until the various threads opened in the first third need to come to a head.
The film itself is competent and remains interesting, if extraordinarily dated - specifically, if you don't find rampant alcoholism and (not so) subtle sexism to be funny, then the jokes are relatively thin on the ground.
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